Police have confirmed the body wrapped in plastic and hidden in a closet of a Hercules house is that of Frederick Sales.

The positive identification of the 35-year-old, announced two weeks after his father was found dead in the same home, was made through dental records, according to Hercules police spokeswoman Doreen Mathews. The Contra Costa County coroner’s office has yet to determine a cause of death, Mathews said.

Hercules police detectives and FBI Crime Laboratory personnel found Sales’ body during a follow-up visit Thursday to the house at 1066 Crepe Myrtle Drive. The body was found in a downstairs closet, wrapped in plastic and behind a wall facade, police said.

On Aug. 27, two weeks before Saturday’s positive identification, police found 73-year-old Ricardo Sales’ body in the Hercules house. The father had been bludgeoned to death and had suffered multiple puncture wounds, according to autopsy results.

The son’s body was apparently inside the residence the whole time while detectives and volunteers searched a Bay Point landfill for it. The Hercules police chief has criticized the initial search of the residence.

Efren Valdemoro, who is suspected of killing the Saleses, was shot and killed by California Highway Patrol officers after a vehicle pursuit Aug. 31. The body of Cindy Tran, Valdemoro’s 46-year-old girlfriend, was found in the car after the pursuit concluded at a grocery store.

Valdemoro is also a person of interest in the deaths of two women in Vallejo.

Matthias Gafni is a Pulitzer Prize winning investigative reporter for the Bay Area News Group. He has reported and edited for Bay Area newspapers since he graduated from UC Davis, covering courts, crime, environment, science, child abuse, education, county and city government, and corruption. A Bay Area native, he loves his Warriors, Giants and 49ers. Send tips to 925-952-5026 or mgafni@bayareanewsgroup.com. Send him an encrypted text on Signal at 408-921-8719.

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